How to find similar blogs?

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  iceace · Member · Oct 3, 2011 at 5:52 pm

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  Is there a quick way of finding fellow bloggers who write on my subject (writing novels)?
  many thanks
  Jude

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Oct 3, 2011 at 6:03 pm

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  I assume you are referring to WordPress.com free hosted blogs. This is the main link to all support documentation and the searchbox on the page provides results from both the docs and from forum threads.

  (1) global tag searches > see here for the format of the URLs to use.

  (2) WordPress.com keyword in content searches
  All public blogs hosted by WordPress.com are indexed and can be searched via http://search.wordpress.com/. Also, keep in mind that the search engine only indexes the body text of blog posts, pages, and comments. The blog name, post titles, and post/comment author names are not indexed.

  (3) other means of searching fro similar blogs

  P.S. If you would like to link your blog to your username it’s easy to do. Dashboard -> Users -> Personal Settings -> then scroll down to Account Details. Then scroll down to where it says ‘Website‘ select the URL for your primary WordPress.com blog and then save changes.

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  iceace · Member · Oct 3, 2011 at 6:15 pm

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  Thanks Timethief – Great help!

  Many thanks
  Jude

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  timethief · Member · Oct 3, 2011 at 6:21 pm

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  @iseace
  You’re welcome. I notice that the free hosted WordPress.com blog you have linked to your username is empty. Here’s a link to a helpful step by step learn WordPress.com tutorial.

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  iceace · Member · Oct 3, 2011 at 8:09 pm

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  Feeling extremely stupid as I cannot seem to find the place you have mentioned – the free hosted WordPress.com blog that I have linked to my username – which is empty. Have gone over it and over it and just can’t see it. I’ve re-checked the ‘Master the Basics’ pages again too. Sorry to be a pain.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 3, 2011 at 8:13 pm

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  This is the free hosted WordPress.com blog your WordPress.com username is linked to > http://mirrormirrorthenovel.wordpress.com/

  I don’t know what you mean by this: “I’ve re-checked the ‘Master the Basics’ pages again too. Sorry to be a pain. ”

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  iceace · Member · Oct 3, 2011 at 8:23 pm

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  Now I understand. That blog – mirrormirrorthenovel.com is never used. I had to change the name of my novel many months ago and also the name of my blog. I didn’t know how to close that blog down.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 3, 2011 at 8:34 pm

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  You can make that blog visibility “private“. We don’t recommend deleting it as URLs cannot be recycled and reused when blogs are deleted.

  You can remove the link to it form your username and replace it with the link to your active WordPress.com blog by following the instructions I posted above. Dashboard -> Users -> Personal Settings -> then scroll down to Account Details. Then scroll down to where it says ‘Website‘ select the URL for your primary WordPress.com blog and then save changes.

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  iceace · Member · Oct 3, 2011 at 9:05 pm

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  Thanks timethief. I’d just discovered how to delete the blog before reading your last message. I’ll think it over.

  Many thanks